A top ten global social CIO, strategist, advisor, speaker, Cyber Security expert, data scientist, Gaurav Pradhan is a living example of how one can achieve anything if one has a will. From a fashion enthusiast to establishing his name as a brand, there is no boundary for Pradhan. This fan[Read More…]
Veteran journalist and Times Now’s managing editor, Navika Kumar has landed herself in a big trouble Friday night during a Newshour debate. The TV journalist has been condemned on social media after she made some ‘insensitive’ remark during a debate on Vande Mataram on late Friday evening. The journalist has[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an active social media user and employs the same for reaching out to as many as over 32 million followers on Twitter. His tweets come in too quickly whenever something new happens. However, his active participation on Twitter was questioned by Twitterati, when he failed[Read More…]
To mark the celebration of the Indian Independence Day, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has directed all madrassas (Islamic schools) to sing Vande Mataram and videograph the event. Ironically, the minister who had directed this order failed to sing a single line of the national song himself. In an[Read More…]
Suspended Janata Dal (United) leader Ali Anwar on Saturday said that history will not forgive Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar for going against the mandate of the people of Bihar, which was in favour of the mahagathbandhan. He also accused Nitish of sacrificing the country for saving his government. “You[Read More…]
The former IPL chief, Lalit Modi resigned as the president of the Nagaur district cricket association in Rajasthan on late Friday night. He put out a three-page letter calling for the Rajasthan cricket association to be made ‘best again’. “I feel that the time is now ripe to pass on[Read More…]
Bollywood lyricist-screenwriter and a noted ad guru, Prasoon Joshi replaced Pahlaj Nihalani as CBFC chairperson on late Friday evening. The government issued a notification appointing Prasoon Joshi as CBFC chief. The notification read, “In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Cinematograph Act, 1952 (37[Read More…]
Pahlaj Nihalani was sacked from the post of Central Board of Film Certification chairman on Friday. “Yes, it is correct. Pahlaj Nihalani had to resign from his chairmanship. Recently there was a lot of friction in the working of the CBFC,” CBFC member and filmmaker Ashok Pandit told indianexpress.com. Nihalani’s[Read More…]
In a terrible incident, nearly 30 children died at Gorakhpur’s BRD Hospital within 48 hours. The incident happened in a case of negligence on part of the hospital to ensure smooth supply of oxygen for the patients. As per the sources, the deaths were caused by the agency responsible for[Read More…]
The Madras High Court asked the government to clarify the current regulatory mechanism governing contents aired by television channels. The bench comprising chief justice, Indira Banerjee and justice, M Sunder gave this direction to assistant solicitor general, Su Srinivasan. Srinivasan appeared for the Centre during the hearing of a PIL[Read More…]
Amid the debate over the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti met Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in Delhi on Thursday. A three-judge Supreme Court bench is currently hearing a petition against Article 35-A provision. Article 35-A sanctions the Jammu and Kashmir legislature to define the state’s[Read More…]
A day after speculations that JD(U) might expel its president, Nitish Kumar from the party, Kumar on Friday has said that Sharad Yadav can take a walk. “He is free to go where he wants,” said Bihar chief minister. Kumar was in Delhi today to meet Prime Minister, Narendra Modi[Read More…]
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday claimed that Indian armed forces are prepared to face any eventuality. “Our defence forces are ready to take on any eventuality,” he said without making any specific references. Notably, responding to reports of troop movements in Tibet by China amid the on-going Doklam standoff[Read More…]
Yogi Adityanath government has asked madrasas affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Madarsa Shiksha Parishad to pay tribute to freedom fighters and organise cultural programmes on 15 August. Besides, the circular issued by UP Madarsa Shiksha Parishad has also asked to shot videos of the programmes. Currently, around 8,000 madrasas in UP[Read More…]
To secure discipline amongst the teaching staff, the government higher education department has issued directions to all the schools to ensure that educators dress up formally at the workplace. As per the notification, the school management is strictly directed to implement the dress code for teachers. On failing to maintain[Read More…]
Breaking the stereotype, WoWakening – a campaign aimed at creating awareness among the mass regarding inclusion and celebration for acid attack survivors in India has been launched on Friday in Delhi. WoWakening is a month long campaign dedicated to the spirit of positivity, bringing hope to the lives of the[Read More…]
Bollywood’s biggest newsmaker these days is Esha Gupta who will be seen next in Milan Luthria’s Baadshaho. But before that, the actress is setting temperatures high with her bold pictures on Instagram. After posing topless, Esha has done the unimaginable in the new series of pictures. She has gone completely[Read More…]
Janata Dal (United) has come down heavily on Congress President, Sonia Gandhi, after she invited JD(U) leader, Sharad Yadav in the Opposition meeting on Friday. JD(U) is alleging that she is trying to create a rift within the Nitish Kumar-led party. “Calling our party members in a meeting of Opposition[Read More…]
Vice-president-elect M Venkaiah Naidu took oath as the 13th Vice-president on Friday morning. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate defeated the opposition candidate, Gopalkrishna Gandhi with a huge majority. Naidu won the vice-presidential election last week. While the 68-year-old BJP leader from Andhra Pradesh got 516 votes out of the[Read More…]
In a shocking move, the Maharashtra government has moved the Supreme Court, seeking to revive a section of a law that makes keeping beef at home an offence, said TOI reports. The court is scheduled to hear the case later on Friday. Over a year ago, the Bombay high court[Read More…]
Congress President Sonia Gandhi has called an 18 opposition party meet on Friday, notably, the last day of the Parliament’s monsoon session, to discuss the upcoming strategy and action of the joint opposition. The meeting will be chaired by Sonia Gandhi. Janata Dal-United leader Sharad Yadav has been invited to[Read More…]
M Venkaiah Naidu will take oath on Friday as India’s 13th Vice President. Nominated by the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, he won the Vice Presidential election last week. The swearing-in ceremony will take place in the Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhawan at 10 am. Before the formal function, Naidu, 68, will[Read More…]
In West Bengal, seventy-eight VHP and Bajrang Dal workers were arrested on Thursday. They were booked while they were demonstrating near the office of a vernacular newspaper in Kolkata against the alleged derogatory depiction of a Hindu Goddess in one of its magazines. A few hundred workers of VHP and Bajrang[Read More…]
District Magistrate of Bihar’s Buxar, Mukesh Pandey committed suicide at a railway station in Uttar Pradesh‘s Ghaziabad area on Friday. Reports said that Mukesh Pandey had left Buxar two days ago, informing the officials that he would be visiting Patna. The Bihar state secretariat was unaware of his presence in[Read More…]
In the largest-ever investment in an online Indian company, e-commerce giant Flipkart got an investment of $2.5 billion from a Japanese telecom and internet company. Japanese group SoftBank’s new $93bn Vision Fund has invested $2.5bn in Indian Flipkart – the biggest private investment in the company’s technology sector. The fresh[Read More…]